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Angelina Jolie to sack stylist over Oscar dress humiliation.

Chicago Billboard Provides Helpful Reminder That Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer. Related: Eating red meat — any amount and any type — appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.

The low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati is negotiating to buy land in Fiji so it can relocate islanders under threat from rising sea levels.

Steve Jobs smelled so foul that none of his co-workers at Atari in the seventies would work with him. Entreating him to shower was usually futile; he’d inevitably claim that his strict vegan diet had rid him of body odor, thus absolving him of the need for standard hygiene habits.

Most unpaid internships are illegal.

Accomplished Chinese women are a new “leftover” generation: Too successful to marry, but disrespected without a man.

Allen Stanford, the billionaire Texas banker who was once knighted by the government of Antigua, was convicted of stealing $7bn in customer money to fund a high end lifestyle that involved sponsorship of an international cricket tournament, yachts, and island properties.

For 150 years, the rest of the world has shown scant interest in the Canadian dollar. But now tiny Iceland…

Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs [NY Times].

The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis.

Extreme Poverty In The U.S. Has Doubled In The Last 15 Years.

Extreme Poverty Down Despite Recession, World Bank Data Show. [NY Times]

Words spelled with more letters on the right of the keyboard are associated with more positive emotions than words spelled with more letters on the left, according to new research by cognitive scientists.

A new study shows that bringing somebody back to your freezing apartment may increase their loneliness and send them in search of the “social warmth” a companion can provide.

Married adults who undergo heart surgery are more than three times as likely as single people who have the same surgery to survive the next three months, a new study finds.

The Upside of Anger: 6 Psychological Benefits of Getting Mad.

When men get stressed, their bodies get more revved up than women’s. Now, two Australian researchers have a theory as to why — and it all boils down to a single gene.

How repeated stress impairs memory.

Old memories interfere with remembering new ones. Scans in healthy people reveal how the brain juggles outdated versus fresh information.

Why We Deny.

It turns out that sometimes sex can induce retrograde amnesia.

Ketamine - Magic Antidepressant, or Expensive Illusion?

Forty years ago, LSD was used in the treatment of alcoholics — with good results. A meta-analysis of studies from that period suggests that the psychedelic drug merits a second look.

Why a classic psychology experiment isn’t what it seemed. More: Unbeknownst to them, walking the hall was the real experiment.

The juicy fruit can cause negative side effects with a number of prescription and over-the-counter medicines.

There has been a lot of talk recently of the promise of personalised medicine, but some recent research led by Cancer Research UK may mean that this isn’t as simple as we thought – a genetic profile from one part of a tumour may not be the same as a sample from nearby in the same tumour. The genetics of cancer? Not as simple as we thought.

The Good News About the Virus in Your Genes.

Will we ever restore sight to the blind?

Can The Human Brain See Quantum Images?

Ancient impact may explain moon’s magnetic mystery. Anomalies near crater suggest scattering of iron-rich debris.

Uranium production in Africa, and what it means to be nuclear.

How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web.

Nigeria’s email scammers exposed.

Why Is iPad So Much More Dominant Than iPhone?

In this post, I’ll take a closer look at the “cryonics dilemma”, mapping out the basic contours of the decision-problem faced by anyone thinking about undergoing cryopreservation.

An Autoethnographic Account of a Tattooed Female and (Re)appropriation of the Tourist Gaze.

Confessions of a Genius Art Forger.

The Enduring Legacy of Basquiat’s Hair.